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As a new crop of politicians renew talk of building a four-lane expressway between Freeport and Galena to replace the two-lane U.S. 20, it would be well for everyone to take a deep breath and put this talk in perspective.
Planning for a four-lane U.S. 20 started at the state highway department in the late 1930s. It was interrupted by World War II. After the war, the plans stayed in hibernation, but in the "Fabulous '50s," with the booming nation in a road-building frenzy, planning for the freeway began again.
And again. And again. And again. Why, it's still being planned! Here's a selection of the many stories from our electronic archives, detailing some of the planning. Enjoy, U.S. 20 fans!
"The U.S. Grant Highway (U.S. Highway 20) is to be the dream thoroughfare of the future according to engineers who are making the survey for the modernization of this cross-country artery." Rockford Register Republic, Dec. 25, 1956.
"Early next year Illinois legislators will be asked to approve a plan that will make it possible for a motorist to drive from Rockford to Dubuque, Iowa without taking his foot off the gas." — Rockford Register Republic, April 5, 1966.
"Included in the first phase of the supplementary freeway system outlined by (Gov. Richard) Ogilvie would be ... a four-lane replacement for U.S. 20 between Rockford and Dubuque." — Rockford Register Star, Feb. 17, 1971.
"(East Dubuque) leaders have pleaded with politicians from both states (Illinois and Iowa) to make the Dubuque bridge a four-lane affair and to widen U.S. 20 to four lanes from Freeport to Galena, where it becomes four lanes again." — Rockford Register Star, Aug. 24, 1990.
"Today: Illinois Dept. of Transportation's Agriculture Work Group: 7 to 10 p.m., Lena Community Center, Lena. One of several subcommittee meetings with farmers affected by the proposed four-lane expressway (U.S. 20) from Galena to Freeport, Highway segment, from Stephenson/Jo Daviess County line east to the Freeport bypass." — Rockford Register Star, Feb. 1, 1996.
"Transportation officials said the 47 mile stretch of U.S. 20 between Freeport and Galena needs to be widened to four lanes to handle increasingly heavy traffic." — Rockford Register Star, Jan. 4, 1999.
"After decades of waiting, an expansion of U.S. 20 to a four-lane highway is on the horizon. Bring on the backhoes." — Rockford Register Star, May 10, 2000.
"A state transportation official gave local leaders Monday a grim forecast for the future of U.S. 20 between Freeport and Galena. Tim Martin, Illinois Department of Transportation secretary, refused to make promises that he knows state and federal officials can't keep while they face budget cuts. The highway's future, he said, is unknown." — Rockford Register Star, Aug. 19, 2003.
"Freeport Mayor Jim Gitz recites statistics and numbers for U.S. 20 expansion plans from memory. He's been working on the project that long. That's why he's eager to see the expansion move forward starting with construction of the Freeport bypass." — Rockford Register Star, Nov. 10, 2003.
"After 30 years of trying in vain to get funding for a four-lane freeway from Galena to Freeport, the U.S. 20 Coalition has started talking tollway." — Rockford Register Star, May 20, 2012.
In addition to the passenger train promised by Gov. Pat Quinn that never seems to be close to arriving, the four-lane highway through northwest Illinois never seems to arrive, either.
It's clear to me that what we have here is a portion of Illinois left to economic stagnation by the officials in Springfield and in Washington, D.C. This land is, simply put, "Northwest Forgotonia."
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Einstein, Darwin, Galileo, Mendeleev: the names of the great scientific minds throughout history inspire awe in those of us who love science. However, according to Dean Keith Simonton, a psychology professor at UC Davis, the era of the scientific genius may be over. In a comment paper published in Nature last week, he explains why.
The "scientific genius" Simonton refers to is a particular type of scientist; their contributions "are not just extensions of already-established, domain-specific expertise." Instead, "the scientific genius conceives of a novel expertise." Simonton uses words like "groundbreaking" and "overthrow" to illustrate the work of these individuals, explaining that they each contributed to science in one of two major ways: either by founding an entirely new field or by revolutionizing an already-existing discipline.
Today, according to Simonton, there just isn't room to create new disciplines or overthrow the old ones. "It is difficult to imagine that scientists have overlooked some phenomenon worthy of its own discipline," he writes. Furthermore, most scientific fields aren't in the type of crisis that would enable paradigm shifts, according to Thomas Kuhn's classic view of scientific revolutions. Simonton argues that instead of finding big new ideas, scientists currently work on the details in increasingly specialized and precise ways.
And to some extent, this argument is demonstrably correct. Science is becoming more and more specialized. The largest scientific fields are currently being split into smaller sub-disciplines: microbiology, astrophysics, neuroscience, and paleogeography, to name a few. Furthermore, researchers have more tools and the knowledge to hone in on increasingly precise issues and questions than they did a century—or even a decade—ago.
But other aspects of Simonton's argument are a matter of opinion. To me, separating scientists who "build on what's already known" from those who "alter the foundations of knowledge" is a false dichotomy. Not only is it possible to do both, but it's impossible to establish—or even make a novel contribution to—a scientific field without piggybacking on the work of others to some extent. After all, it's really hard to solve the problems that require new solutions if other people haven't done the work to identify them. Plate tectonics, for example, was built on observations that were already widely known.
And scientists aren't done altering the foundations of knowledge, either. In science, as in many other walks of life, we don't yet know everything we don't know. Twenty years ago, exoplanets were hypothetical. Dark energy, as far as we knew, didn't exist.
Simonton points out that "cutting-edge work these days tends to emerge from large, well-funded collaborative teams involving many contributors" rather than a single great mind. This is almost certainly true, especially in genomics and physics. However, it's this collaboration and cooperation between scientists, and between fields, that has helped science progress past where we ever thought possible. While Simonton uses "hybrid" fields like astrophysics and biochemistry to illustrate his argument that there is no room for completely new scientific disciplines, I see these fields as having room for growth. Here, diverse sets of ideas and methodologies can mix and lead to innovation.
Simonton is quick to assert that the end of scientific genius doesn't mean science is at a standstill or that scientists are no longer smart. In fact, he argues the opposite: scientists are probably more intelligent now, since they must master more theoretical work, more complicated methods, and more diverse disciplines. In fact, Simonton himself would like to be wrong; "I hope that my thesis is incorrect. I would hate to think that genius in science has become extinct," he writes.
I don't think we've seen the end of the scientific genius; it's just hard to know where science will take us next. After all, in the first century, a Roman engineer named Julius Frontinus wrote, "inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development." Look at us now.
So, Ars readers, what do you think? Is scientific genius extinct?
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Margot Condon is the NYU Langone Medical Center NICU nurse seen in a picture that went viral this week. In the photo, she's holding a small baby, just 8 hours old, and pumping air into its lungs outside the hospital during the emergency evacuation. Backup generators failed during Superstorm Sandy and the medical staff was tasked with safely transferring everyone to other facilities.
It took a team of at least six people to get the fragile patient safely down nine flights of stairs in the dark. They had to coordinate their movements, each with a different job. The doctor was there, the security guard with an oxygen tank, the father and others assisting. The baby's mother was still hospitalized during the dramatic mission.
Condon, a nurse for 36 years, says she remained focused on each step they needed to take, but has never seen anything like it. Anderson talks with her about the ordeal and her training.
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WASHINGTON - Schoolteachers should have to pass a stringent exam - much like the bar exam for lawyers - before being allowed to enter the profession, one of the nation's largest teachers unions said Monday.
The American Federation of Teachers called for a tough new written test to be complimented by stricter entrance requirements for teacher training programs, such as a minimum grade point average.
"It's time to do away with a common rite of passage into the teaching profession, whereby newly minted teachers are tossed the keys to their classrooms, expected to figure things out, and left to see if they and their students sink or swim," said AFT President Randi Weingarten, calling that system unfair to students and teachers alike.
The proposal, released Monday as part of a broader report on elevating the teaching profession, calls for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to take the lead in developing a new test. The nonprofit group currently administers the National Board Certification program, an advanced, voluntary teaching credential that goes beyond state standards.
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The proposal by a major teachers union to impose tougher requirements on its own members may signal a shift in tone for a profession facing heightened scrutiny. In recent years, unions such as AFT have resisted calls to end tenure and to tie teachers' evaluations to their students' test scores.
But by embracing more rigorous certification standards, the union hopes to raise the status of the teaching profession, which could reap future rewards when it comes to compensation and other benefits. In its report, AFT drew comparisons between teaching and other professions that require advanced professional training, such as medicine and law.
The proposal also calls for making entrance into teacher education programs more competitive. Candidates should be required to have a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average, the AFT said, in addition to formal interviews and 10 hours of field experience.
"If you impose that kind of restriction, that means you're signaling to society at large that not everybody can be a teacher. You're saying it's hard to get in. It's hard to be good," said Arthur McKee of the National Council on Teacher Quality, which supports the proposal.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, too, commended the proposal, describing it as part of a broader push to raise the bar for teachers and enable schools to predict a teacher's potential for success in the classroom.
"Too many new teachers enter our schools feeling unprepared. We shouldn't tolerate that in a profession so important to our country's future," he said in a statement.
The union's executive council will consider whether to approve the report at a February meeting. Other teachers unions including the National Education Association have yet to weigh in on the proposal.


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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A former police officer who murdered nine people during a 1986 crime spree was executed Tuesday after his attorneys' last-minute appeals were rejected.
Manuel Pardo, 56, was pronounced dead at Florida State Prison at 7:47 p.m., about 16 minutes after the lethal injection process began. His attorneys had tried to block the execution by arguing that he was mentally ill, but federal courts declined to intercede.
Reporters could not hear his final statement because of an apparent malfunction in the death chamber's sound system. A white sheet had been pulled up to his chin and IV lines ran into his left arm. He blinked several times, his eyes moved back and forth and he took several deep breaths. Over the next several minutes the color drained from his face before he was pronounced dead.
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Pardo, a former Boy Scout and Navy veteran, began his law enforcement career in the 1970s with the Florida Highway Patrol, graduating at the top of his class at the academy. But he was fired from that agency in 1979 for falsifying traffic tickets. He was soon hired by the police department in Sweetwater, a small city in Miami-Dade County.
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Decades ago many states had eugenics laws enforcing sterilization policies. The victims are still awaiting justice. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
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Sad that our government has to overstep their boundries and become judgemental and make unwise decisions as to who should or should not pro-create. However, in the case of our "special needs" community I take exception to the comment that the government deemed them "unfit' to have children. The more apt term should have been "unable to care for children". One or two genetically mentally disable people will produce another mentally disable human. They cannot hold jobs and in most cases are unable to care for an infant. Since we no longer have institutions to care for these very wonderful and special people they are left to be cared for by decreasingly funded programs. If they can be left without supervision they sit in front of a television or computer all day. If they have to have 24 hour supervision they are either cared for by a family that is extremely stressed or they are made wards of the state. Our school system offers services until they are 21 or 25, depending on the state. They then go to adult services after that and medicaid has drastically cut funding for these services. For so many the future is very bleak and lonely, especially in poor communities. Better that they do not have children and are encouraged to reach their full potential as members of our society. Let those who are the most vocal on the criticism get out and be proactive in giving our special needs community a feeling of value in our society. Hire them, advocate for them, treat them with respect. There is a lot more to their life then to be able to bear children that they are unable to care for.
I think anyone who was forcibly sterilized per the eugenics law should definitely be compensated. No state or legislation should be able to deem it necessary due to someones concieved ability to have and care for children.
Its amazing that the government would allow such a thing to happen to people who have done nothing to deserve this treatment. You would think that if the government thought this type of thing was ok then why don't they consider more seriously having pedofiles castrated. At least that makes some sence.
Yes, they should be compensated. What was done was despicable.
I just watched the segment on forced sterilization. You showed a map of the states that participated in this and Illinois wasn't included. I worked in an OB/Gyn office in the earty 1980's and Illinois was still doing this. Patient's were told if they wanted to stay on public aid they had to be sterillized, mainly because they kept coming in pregnant and were considered "slow". Apparently, Illinois hasn't admitted they did this at one time.
While forced sterilization seems akin to Nazi policy, I do believe that there are huge numbers of Americans who stupidly and recklessly pass on serious illnesses, deformities, and genetics to their children that humans would breed out of any animal by not letting those . All this does is increase medical costs to all of us by a significant amount, and further undermine the human race as a whole. If people cannot practice some common sense and discretion about reproduction, maybe it makes sense for someone else to make that choice for them?
If you believe in 'God', then you should realize that parts of Biblical history are basically genetic cleansing of the human race. The Noah story, for example. Noah and his family were chosen to survive because they were 'pure in all their generations', meaning that they had the genetic stock desired by 'God', and those with impure generations, perhaps too much neanderthal blood (?), were intended to die so that the pure strain of humans could evolve as intended, again by God, Gods (the first Biblical references were plural, the idea of one god came later, a human invention), or perhaps the alien race that bred us in the first place.
These were not the only people forced into sterilization. There were many Native American women who were, if not force, unknowingly or cohersed into sterilization by the Indian Health Service. Some of these women who were sterilized did so by consent but truely believed they would lose there IHS Benefits/Services if they did not comply with the sterilization. Further more, in the 1970's, Goerge H. Bushes "Family Planning Budget was dramtically increased during these times of sterilization. A widely known example if this is two cases in Montana of 15 year old girls who were to have their appendix removed, also were given tubal ligations.
I honestly feel that the policy of eugenics in the past have saved American families and tax payers from such a huge burden. Today we feel that everyone deserves a right to life, but does everyone have a right to procreate? What we call mentally disabled today was called "feeble minded" decades ago. I believe that governments did this, not out of malice, but out of necessity. It seems that those who were targeted in your report could barely take care of themselves, let alone a child. Please prove me wrong if you can.
sounds horrible but I agree. people who aren't able to support or raise a child simply shouldn't be able to have them. sorry Ms. Citizen if you live a life of poverty on government assistance, I am sure you will love your child but that doesnt mean the rest of us have to pay for their food and shelter.
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A profiteering arms dealer hopes to launch a new Cold War in a bestselling international thriller
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Discouraged by those dismal stats counts, bloggers? Take heart. You actually have enough clout to push global superpowers to the brink of World War III. Or so David Baldacci suggests in The Whole Truth, a novel that reheats the conventions of the Cold War thriller for the age of viral posts and "perception management."
Conflicts in the Middle East are too puny to satisfy the megalomaniac ambitions of arms dealer Nicholas Creel in the post-9/11 era. So he hires a perception-management (PM) expert to start a global crisis that will bring in enough weapons contracts to keep his yacht afloat off the coast of Italy in perpetuity. Creel's point man ignites the tension by planting on the Web a video — purporting to describe Russian atrocities — that goes viral. Fears of a new Red Menace grow when 28 people are killed at a London think tank, apparently by Russian assassins. Evidence found on a hard drive at their office implicates China in the propaganda campaign against its Asian neighbor.
As Armageddon looms, two people stand up to Creel and his scheme: a rogue security agent who uses the single name of Shaw and a washed-up reporter, Katie James. They fight him with the help of high-tech gizmos and near-superhuman feats: surviving car chases, leaping from a second-story window, dodging a syringe full of tetrodotoxin, "over a thousand times more lethal than cyanide."
All of it makes for a cynical tale despite Baldacci's efforts to cast Shaw as a softie for a dead woman he loved. The Whole Truth has none of the patriotism that flavors the novels of Tom Clancy and other literary jingoists. Its writing is at times graceless and clichéd, if taut and well-paced. And Katie is one of the least credible female journalists in recent pop fiction – someone who, after two Pulitzers, doesn't know that reporters speak of wanting their stories on "page one," not on the "front page."
But The Whole Truth has a big and timely idea behind it: Sometimes perceptions don't affect reality — they become reality. And Baldacci makes his case for that view without the bluster and infestation of acronyms found in the work Clancy and many others. He also offers an interesting afterword on perception managers. "PMs are not spin doctors because they don't spin facts," Baldacci writes. "They create facts and then sell them to the world as truth." He may exaggerate the perception-managers' powers, but he's right when he says that "a major untruth can be established so quickly and so overwhelmingly across the world" that no after-the-fact reporting can make most people believe it isn't true: "And that's precisely what makes it so dangerous."
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Worst line: No. 1: "To say that this hit the earth like a molten-lava tsunami would have been the grossest of understatements." No. 2: "Just like war, the Americans did not have a monopoly on self-serving politicians." No. 3: "Much like the treatment of the Russians, few believed their denials." No. 4: "on the frozen tundra." No. 5: " … she was now currently living in London …"
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By M.L. JOHNSON (MILWAUKEE, AP) — Dairy farmers expressed frustration this week with Congress' failure to pass a farm bill, saying the uncertainty made it hard to do business and some could go under without changes to the federal milk program.
Farmers also worried that if a current nine-month extension of the 2008 farm bill expires with no action, a 64-year-old law will kick in, sending milk prices spiraling. While that might provide short-term profits, they say, it'd hurt them in the long run because no one wants to buy milk at $6 a gallon.
The U.S. House voted down a farm bill June 20, about a week after the Senate approved a different version. It was the second year in a row that the House failed to pass the every-five-years bill that sets funding for agriculture and food programs. Last year, it didn't even vote, prompting the passage in January of a slimmed-down extension of the 2008 law — largely to avoid milk prices sharply increasing.
The Agricultural Act of 1949 sets a much higher price for government purchases of cheese, butter and other dairy products than the U.S. has seen in decades. The government cut the price in recent decades because if it didn't, more companies would sell to the government than to retailers, unless consumer prices rose to match.
Farmers fear if the higher prices kick in on Jan. 1, milk and other dairy prices will rise until consumers just stop buying their products.
"I don't think that's good for anybody because we would destroy demand," said Pete Kappelman, a Wisconsin dairy farmer and board chairman of Land O'Lakes, a farmer-owned company that markets milk, eggs, butter and many other products.
The farm bill failed in the House mainly because of disagreement over food-stamp funding and dairy program reforms farmers say are needed to keep them in business.
The government currently pays dairy farmers when milk prices get too low. But the problem in recent years has been the high cost of feed due to the ethanol industry's demand for corn as well as the drought. Farmers say milk costs almost as much to produce as they can sell it for — and sometimes more.
Kappelman, who has a 450-cow farm in Manitowoc, Wis., worked on a national dairy industry committee that proposed a margin protection program that pays farmers when the price difference between milk and feed shrinks to a certain point.
He also supports a market stabilization program that would require farmers to either reduce the amount of milk produced when prices drop too low or give up a portion of their margin protection payments. The U.S. Department of Agriculture would then use that money to buy and donate dairy products to food banks and help low-income families.
The margin protection and market stabilization programs would be voluntary, but farmers couldn't participate in one without the other.
The Senate passed a farm bill last week that included both the margin protection and market stabilization programs, but House Republicans voted to remove the market stabilization program. Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, the senior Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said a number of Democrats changed their vote to no at that point.
Randy Roecker, 40, was among those desperately hoping the complete package would pass. He and his wife farm with his parents in Loganville, Wis.
They were doing well in 2008, when they renovated to expand from 50 to 300 cows. The next year, milk prices plummeted and feed prices rose. At one point, they were losing $100,000 a month — Roecker lost his savings, his parents lost their retirement and the farm went into debt.
They and many of their neighbors are still struggling, even though milk prices have risen.
"Just last Friday, another one of my friends got rid of his cows," Roecker said. "… It's just getting to the point where you can't afford to keep going anymore."
Wisconsin farmers grow more of their own feed than those in states like California, the nation's top milk producer. Dean Strauss, 41, who milks 1,900 cows in Sheboygan Falls, said growing 3,000 acres of feed provides some protection from high feed prices but doesn't reduce the need for a new farm bill, which would likely have better crop insurance programs.
Strauss, who described himself as a "free-market" person, was among the farmers who opposed the market stabilization program, fearing that any reduction in milk production would stifle growth in the Wisconsin cheese industry, which buys most of his milk.
Jamie Bledsoe, who has 1,300 cows in Riverdale, Calif., had similar concerns about the effect on his state's growing, international dairy exports.
"My personal view is, the government does not effectively manage anything, let alone the supply of milk," Bledsoe said.
But Kappelman said that without a way to control supply when milk prices fall too low, farmers would keep producing, the margins would stay low and the government would have to keep shelling out.
Even with disagreement over the stabilization program, farmers were united on the message they wanted to send to Congress. Failure to pass a farm bill, Bledsoe said, "leaves us in a big cloud of uncertainty."


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"If right-to-work passes in Michigan, it demonstrates the weakness of the labor movement. If it can happen in Michigan, there's a feeling it can happen anywhere." - Richard Hurd, professor of labor studies at the IRL School at Cornell University. The right-to-work law, which allows workers at union-represented companies to not pay union dues, passed today amid statewide union protests. Opponents claim right-to-work weakens unions by restriciting their funding.
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A Gallup survey shows that 70 percent of Americans want politicians to compromise as the "fiscal cliff" deadline approaches.
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Malala Yousufzai, 14, is now in the hands of medical experts in England. The Pakistani teen was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban last week when riding home in a school van with other classmates in the Swat Valley region, near the border with Afghanistan.
Malala was targeted by the gunmen for speaking out about girls' rights to education. Last year when asked why she risks her life, she told CNN's Reza Sayah, "I shall raise my voice...I have rights. I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up."
The Islamic extremists aimed to silence her defiant message, and have promised to attack her again if she survives her injuries.
In response, supporters from around the world are holding rallies, signing petitions, and demanding justice for Malala. Yesterday in Karachi, tens of thousands gathered to back Malala's cause and condemn the Taliban.
A few arrests have been made, and Pakistan's interior minister told CNN's Christiane Amanpour there is a $1 million dollar bounty on the Taliban spokesman who took credit for the attack.
Anderson will talk to Reza about security for her family before she was gunned down, and now. And Dr. Sanjay Gupta will give insight on the recovery process for a patient with severe brain damage. Watch at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.
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I wish sooner recovery for the teen-age girl, Malala, to continue her struggle for the right of the girls' education. It is the right of every person to have access to education, God given right that no one should deny others! Malala's dream will triumph.
I also appreciate and thank the the UK hospital and the specialists who are by her side to help her recover.
God be with you Malala, and we look forward to your recovery to get back to school to reach your goal!!!
God Bless!
She represents freedom. May she live to speak and witness to all oppressed in the Middle East!! Amen.
$1,000,000 for the Taliban spoke person, $100,000 for the attacker? Doesn't make sense. I say git rid of the Taliban like they got rid of the NAZI. Get well soon Malala. I hope you (Malala) win the Nobel Peace Prize.
She might it be alone before,but now,she have in her side all the young people of her generation,and oldest too.Malala is a bright example for the people of her country,she is young.Intrepid,she have nothing to afraid,how much measure the courage of one young person, when have at side the whole support of entire nation against to terrorist Taliban??
The entire world have the right to education across the planet,who silly people believe today how women must be just a toy for man??
Get well soon Malala,you are the iron woman for your people.You survive from one attack,now with the strong support of the whole world,you can easy fight the people you try to kill you for your right to education! Hold on Malala,be strong!
From Brazil...; Well, I hope she gets back to life and be self-saved. But I Hope, this thing makes the Nations find a way to take out terrorists and give to Pakistan all Rights which we always have to live. The Law must to endure!
So sad for her. I truly hope she recovers without permanent brain damage 🙁
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Microsoft has won a breach-of-contract trial against rival Motorola, with the jury awarding the Redmond software giant just over $14.5 million in damages. About $11 million of that is for violating its contract obligations, and $3 million is to offset Microsoft's legal expenses.
The jury found that by trying to license its standard-essential patents for astronomical sums, Motorola violated the promises it made to the groups that controlled those standards, such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
The result of Microsoft getting some payment in this case is not surprising, since it's a follow-up to a November trial in the same court that Microsoft essentially won. In November, US District Judge James Robart set what he saw as an appropriate rate for licensing Motorola's standards-based patents—about $1.8 million, far closer to Microsoft's suggested rate than Motorola's suggestion that it should be paid as much as $4 billion.
Essentially, Motorola argued that because Microsoft started the fight by suing for patent infringement, Moto's obligations to license its patents on a "reasonable and non-discriminatory" basis ended, and it should be allowed to demand high payments as a negotiating tactic. Judge Robart disagreed, setting a far lower payment. He then allowed a jury to rule on whether Motorola had breached its obligations.
Regarding the jury verdict, made public late yesterday, Microsoft stated: "The jury's verdict is the latest in a growing list of decisions by regulators and courts telling Google to stop abusing patents."
A Motorola spokesman told Reuters: "We're disappointed in this outcome but look forward to an appeal of the new legal issues raised in this case."
Microsoft has been insisting that any company using Android must pay for its patents. Most Android phones now have such licensing, and Google-owned Motorola is the last large holdout according to Microsoft.


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Shayne Looper: The prophet of the fall of Christendom
One could be excused for thinking that Christianity is in trouble. Church attendance, particularly in mainline Protestant churches, has declined. Since the heyday of the "Moral Majority," Christian political influence has dropped dramatically. Recent data show that the percentage of people claiming no religious affiliation is growing rapidly.
The church's moral authority has diminished. People are not turning to the church to ask what is right, they are turning to the courts to ask what is legal. The abortion and same-sex marriage issues emphatically illustrate the point.
Much has changed within a generation. Dwight Eisenhower was baptized into the Christian faith while he was in office. Jimmy Carter taught a Sunday School as often as he could, even when he was president. Bill Clinton was regularly photographed carrying a gigantic Bible as he left church services. Contrast these examples to President Obama who, in spite of ongoing criticism, does not feel it (even symbolically) important to attend church.
When, in the 1950s, Americans and Western Europeans distinguished themselves from their communist rivals they often did do so with a single word: the communists were "godless." Americans, on the other hand, lived in the heart of Christendom.
The world has changed since then, and one man saw it coming. In the inaugural Pascal Lectures at the University of Waterloo, given in 1978, Malcom Muggeridge foretold the end of Christendom with prophetic insight.
He had long seen signs of it. They were everywhere. He saw it in the arts, in the works of Dali, Picasso and Beckett. "In the cycle of a great civilization," he noted, "the artist begins as a priest and ends as a clown or buffoon." He later added, "A dying civilization, Christendom, on a swiftly moving, ebbing tide, clutches at any novelty in art and literature, ready to accept and then almost at once reject whatever is new no matter how perverse or abnormal."
Muggeridge also saw signs of Christendom's end in the West's systematic abandonment of Christian mores. He discerned even then that society was not moving from one set of moral values to another — from, for example, a Christian to a humanistic moral standard — but from a Christian moral standard to a moral vacuum, particularly in the areas of eroticism.
Humankind's technological advancements have made it possible to move faster, grow richer, communicate more rapidly and even master many illnesses. But this has led, Muggeridge realized, to a "growing arrogance, a widening separation from the true nature of our being; in other words, an alienation from God." "Christendom," he said, "has dreamed up its own dissolution in the minds of its own intellectual elite ... dismantling Christendom, depreciating and deprecating all its values."
But the fall of Christendom does not represent the end of human history, any more than did the fall of Rome in 410 A.D. or the fall of Jerusalem nearly a millennium before that. Nor does the fall of Christendom, as Muggeridge made clear, represent the end of Christianity. Quite the contrary. "Amid the shambles of a fallen Christendom," he said, "I feel a renewed confidence in the light of the Christian revelation with which it first began."
Christendom may be sinking — is sinking — but Christ's kingdom remains. While much has been lost, there is also much to gain. For example, living in Christendom made it possible for generations to suppose they were Christians when they were really only citizens. But in the fall of Christendom, only those truly committed to Christ will have any reason to bear his name.
On the other end of the spectrum, some people thought that in rejecting Christendom's traditions they had rejected Christ. As Christendom falls, such people will find that Christ still stands and offers an attractive alternative to the kind of life the dominant culture can provide.
Shayne Looper is the pastor of Lockwood Community Church in Branch County, Mich. Read more at shaynelooper.com.


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It was the worst loss of life for U.S. wildland firefighters in eight decades, a tragedy that killed 19 members of a Hotshot crew during an out-of-control inferno in a brush-choked canyon.
The fire prompted a strong sense of unity among everyone involved in the days after the blaze as dignitaries traveled to the site to remember the fallen and a promise to learn from the tragedy.
But one year later, few changes have been implemented among the state's fire crews as a result of the deaths, despite an investigation that uncovered a series of communications breakdowns that doomed the 19 men and a second that blamed fire managers.
Firefighters in other parts of the country have also been unable to incorporate specific changes prompted by the deadly incident into their training, largely because Arizona investigators have been unable to reach any consensus about fault in the deaths.
The Arizona Forestry Division found that fire managers overseeing the Yarnell Hill Fire did not make major mistakes and that it isn't clear why the Granite Mountain Hotshots left a safe zone and walked into the canyon where they were killed.
A competing report from the state's occupational safety agency, however, blamed managers for failing to see that the town of Yarnell was essentially doomed and said they should have pulled the crews back hours before the deaths. The agency fined the Forestry Division $559,000 for failing to pull the crew.
The lack of clarity about mistakes – and what lessons might be learned – left firefighters with little to go on as they examined training and policies in the past year. The fact that all the firefighters with the crew died makes it impossible to understand their decision-making. One member of the crew was alone as a lookout, and survived, but was so far away he doesn't know why his fellow firefighters made the decision that led to their deaths.
The state has made minor adjustments to its firefighting guidelines.
The investigation by the state forester called for testing new devices that track crews using global positioning satellites and a communications protocol requiring firefighters to tell managers when weather conditions change. Forestry officials also distributed new instructions on how ground crews should coordinate with new, large flame retardant-dropping aircraft, such as the one that was circling but unused when the Granite Mountain Hotshots were trapped.
Marshall Krotenberg, the safety agency's lead investigator, told the Industrial Commission of Arizona in December that there should have been officers to ensure firefighters' safety, including a planning section chief and a division supervisor. "There was no plan to move people out of the way," he said during a hearing.
Dick Mangan, a retired U.S. Forest Service safety official who has investigated wildfire fatalities, cited the organizational mistakes as crucial errors and criticized the new communications guidelines as mere clarifications of standard practices. He also dismissed the use of GPS systems, saying the devices would be overlooked during fast moving fires such as Yarnell. "A GPS unit would have transmitted to who?" he asked.
The Yarnell Hill Fire was triggered by a lightning strike on a brush-covered mountaintop on the afternoon of June 28, 2013. The next day, a handful of crews were sent to fight the fire, but it wasn't considered a major problem and some were released.
But as night fell, the fire grew and officials decided to call in more resources – including the Granite Mountain Hotshots. They arrived early on June 30, and headed into the hills surrounding the small former mining town.
At mid-afternoon, weather reports of a strong thunderstorm boosted fears that winds would shift and send the fire back toward Yarnell – and the 19 Hotshots deployed to the area. As the fire made its move, Granite Mountain superintendent Eric Marsh and crew Capt. Jesse Steed decided to head back to Yarnell. That's when the flames whipped into the canyon, trapping the crew. A 20th member of the Hotshots, acting as a lookout, made a dash to safety.
Dugger Hughes, a battalion chief who oversees a Hotshot crew for the Northwest Fire district in southern Arizona, said not much can be learned from the fire because no one knows the thinking of Marsh and Steed.
"The investigation, both of them, I've read them and re-read them numerous times. There were some decisions made, and I'm not sure anybody will ever know why," Hughes said. "A lot of fatality incidents there are some real vivid lessons-learned that come from them. This isn't one of them."
Kris Bruington, superintendent of the Lone Peak Hotshots in Utah, says other than reinforcing the need to focus on time-tested basics of lookouts, communication, safety zones, escape routes and every crew member's right to speak up about safety concerns, there's little to learn.
"With the Yarnell reports it's tough, there's nothing that they can say 'hey, this is what happened, and this is why it happened," Bruington said. "Because there's just nobody left to say, 'Well, this is what we were talking about 30 minutes before this happened."'
The state is appealing the more than $550,000 fine, and a hearing is scheduled for August. The state Forestry Division has declined to comment on the fire or the investigations.
Even Gov. Jan Brewer tiptoes about the issue.
"I don't want to weigh in on litigation issue, because it taints it and creates bigger issues for Arizona," Brewer said in an interview this month. "There were reports done by two or three different agencies, and they did a good job. It was an unfortunate, horrific tragedy that took place, emotions were wild. And I think that eventually it will come to the conclusion that certain, possibly different methods, techniques, call it what you wish, will be improved."
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After losing it laughing during a Dyngus Day RidicuList, Anderson gets an offer to become Buffalo's Pussy Willow Prince.
Post by: Anderson Cooper
Filed under: The RidicuList
Oh Anderson, my daughter thinks, I should take you out to Polish dinner and explain what Dingus is, it's actually "Smingus Dyngus" you missed the point there
I believe you! 🙂 Love ya!
it was't a big deal. It was funny and I also laughed.
I live in Buffalo and Dyngus Day has always seemed silly to me but I embrace the diverse traditions. But I truly enjoy the rediculist because it encourages us not to take ourselves too seriously. So thank you, Anderson, for that contagious giggle. I recall your previous giggle attacks and the segment when you compared people to animals which they resembled. I believe you were the hairless cat. Life just doesn't have to be that serious.
Anderson....I didn't take offense to your comments as I understood what you meant. By the way I love your giggle.
Anderson, I am from Buffalo, NY with Polish American ties and I LOVED your giggle fit. It was fun to see a reporter let loose and get real. I was not offended in the least and have watched the piece several times and laughed with you. Whether you go to Buffalo next year or not, I will not waiver in my support of you having fun on national TV. Keep it Real Anderson! You are a welcome relief from the norm.
Anderson, you aren't the only ones who has had the giggles. My mother used to call it a 'tickle box'. She would say, "Who opened your tickle box?" Well, my friend, you opened my 'giggle box'. I want to thank you for starting off my day with the giggles. With all the bad news about economy, the governnent, etc., giggles are hard to find today.
Thanks again!
I am Polish, I am from Buffalo. I think his out burst was HILARIOUS! People, if we can't make fun of ourselves, what's the point of being here? The guy wasn't laughing at us. Number 1, notice the giggles came after the words "pussy willow" which in itself TO ALL AMERICANS is a funny phrase, like FART. Its funny. You hear it and laugh. He's a guy for crying out loud. These are funny words to guys. I think instead of of "the city of good neighbors" Buffalo should be deemed "the city of over entitled whiners". Grow up Buffalo. It was not a dig, it was a dude laughing at a funny word. Cripe.
Dude! SNL is really going to nail your giggly booty this Saturday – you bet 'cha- some Palinesque for you – GAG!
BTW, i would love to accompany you to the celebration of Dyngus day,,,,but it could get ugly! PARTEEEE!
Well, Anderson, you made us LAUGH and ROLL and GIGGLE over and over and over! You made OUR day brighter by your giggles and NO it was NOT silly but absolutely GREAT! So much news these days brings tears of anguish, but not this report, and from the land of Arkansas where we have Toad Suck Day, well, WE LOVED YOUR SEGMENT and feel there is no need to apologize for laughing. LAUGH MORE! We loved it! Great Job, and hats off to YOU, Anderson!
Offended? What about Big Chuck, Houlihan and Little John ripping on Polish people for years? Im not offended by Anderson. It is a silly funny tradition! Keep laughing Anderson. You are a good man and I appreciate all that you have done and continue to do.
Anderson, I don't have much to laugh about these days so thank you for the laughs! I love your laughing fits!
that's awesome. anyone who is offended really needs to lighten up.
Anderson, I love it when you giggle! I can't help but a giggle as well! Thank you for not being serious all the time! Love it! And The Ridiculist is GREAT!!
That was great that you were asked to come to the celebration next year at New York, if you can make it. 🙂
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Okay Cooper,
We all got it, don't dig deeper!
Honestly speaking, your giggling is funny ! It is contagious .. .. I am sure everyone giggled without actually realizing what it was you were giggling about !! That is just how your giggling works! Laughter is a good medicine for the soul.. have a great giggling day again!
There is no party like a Dyngus Day Party 'cause a Dyngus Day Party don't stop!!!
anderson, I love you and your giggles. thanks for making me laugh .haha (again)
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